One year after devastating floods affected some 20 million people in Pakistan, research on the country's humanitarian sector shows that raising awareness about quality and accountability concepts, methods, language...

As the world faces an increasing number of large-scale disasters that make the need for quality and accountability in humanitarian response ever more pressing, the Sphere Project and Church...

Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian and German versions of the Sphere Handbook 2011 edition are to be released as of 23 June in some 17 countries around the world. From...

The Sphere Project Board received Plan International as a new Board member, elected Erik Johnson as its new Chair and committed to achieve greater coherence among quality and accountability...

Two sets of standards for addressing economic recovery and handling livestock in emergency situations have been accepted as companions to the Sphere Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in...

The Sphere Handbook 2011 edition was launched in 15 events across India on 14 April. From New Delhi to Bangalore and from Mumbai to Kolkata, hundreds of humanitarian workers...

"The Sphere Standards have become the gold standard for humanitarian assistance," said the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos at the launch of the Sphere Handbook 2011 edition...

Two modules of training materials reflecting the 2011 edition of the Sphere Handbook are now available. A revised version of Module 1, "Introduction to Sphere", and a Module on...

About 50 aid workers are learning how to train their colleagues in the implementation of Sphere minimum standards in humanitarian response. "Participants at the first ever ‘training of trainers'course...

The Sphere Project announces that Martin Fisher and Lori Werner have joined its staff in Geneva, strengthening the areas of learning and training as well as communications. Martin Fisher...